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Prospect Road, ST. ALBANS, AL1 2AU

Semi-detached houses at the Cottonmill Lane end of Prospect Road, built in 1928-30. Prospect Road started out as a cul-de-sac off Holywell Hill, first developed in the second half of the 19th Century. The eastward extension, as seen here, linked it through to Cottonmill Lane, along the route of a former footpath.

The houses at the eastern end of Prospect Road are mainly bay-fronted between-the-wars semis, but the totally vegetation-clad telegraph pole with its massed ranks of radiating cables was something different!

Near the River Ver are the Allotments just off Cottonmill Lane.

c.1930s housing in Cottonmill Lane, by its junction with Prospect Road. Although not developed until then, the route itself is much older, being the route from St Albans out to Sopwell from St Albans.

Cul-de-sac off Prospect Road, ending at the Watford Junction - St Albans Abbey "Abbey Line". Originally laid out in 1912 with houses built on the eastern side, the western side, see here, was developed later, in the c.1930s.

Terraced cottages in Prospect Road, built c.1870. No 57, on the right, although of a different style, abuts the terrace and was built at the same time.

Terraced cottages in Prospect Road, built c.1870.

c.1930s housing in Cottonmill Lane, on the section between Leyland Avenue and Prospect Road. Although not developed until then, the route itself is much older, being the route from St Albans out to Sopwell from St Albans.

c.1930s housing in Leyland Avenue, a cul-de-sac off Cottonmill Lane.

Victorian cottages in Prospect Road, built c.1870. No 25, on the left, was for a time the home of the builder William Longmire, who was responsible for much of the restoration work carried out on St Albans Abbey in the 1870s/80s, firstly under the supervision of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and then Edmund Beckett (later Lord Grimthorpe). He was also involved in the building of Batchwood Hall for Lord Grimthorpe, also in the 1870s. Another of his works was to extend the chapel at Lincoln's Inn in London in the 1880s, with the architect again being Lord Grimthorpe. Part of this involved the removal of a 15 foot high arch, which he reconstructed in the rear garden of no 25 where it still stands (see Image). The house was originally named Ousby Cottage, Ousby near Penrith being where Longmire was born in 1825.